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Work Sucks: How the Movie “Office Space” Proves Radicalism Lives in the Mainstream
Few films in recent decades have so successfully spoken to the day-to-day realities of service sector employment as 1999's

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The Ubermensch Rises: Justice, Truth and Necessary Evil in “The Dark Knight Rises“
We can't rely on a hero to save us, nor count on an unjust system to miraculously transform itself. We must tear off the mask and take matters into …

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Chronicling the War of Nature vs. Greed: A Review of “Arctic Voices: Resistance at the Tipping Point“
The collected essays of Native Alaskans, environmental activists, scientists and researchers form a counternarrative to Big Oil's PR blitz in the increasingly polluted Northern Hemisphere.

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Review of Henry Giroux’s Twilight of the Social: Resurgent Publics in the Age of Disposability
What are the limitations and possibilities for reclaiming democracy as a radical idea amid the ruins of neoliberalism? This is the fundamental question posed by Henry Giroux's important new …

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David Harvey’s “Rebel Cities”: Living for the City
Most recently, economist and critic David Harvey has contributed a refreshingly new look at the nature of the modern city and, more importantly, why it needs to be wrested …

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Rust Belt Resistance: How a Small Community Took on Big Oil and Won
The book effectively tells a story of greed and corruption in one small town that actually had also swept like a hurricane through hundreds of other communities in the …

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The Corruption of Politics by Checkbooks
(Image: Vanguard Press)Dollars deliver messages in a new book by “Dollar Bill” Bradley, and the former Rhodes scholar, NBA star, U.S. Senator and presidential candidate has no doubt where …

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The Easter Rising: How 1,558 Irish Defied the British Empire
The Easter Rising was first published in 1999, but in 2004 a pivotal development occurred that mandated not just a new edition but essentially a new book.

Novelist Uses Fiction to Depict War’s True Aftermath
Kristen Hannah's twentieth book, the novel

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Chris Hayes’ Twilight of the Elites: A Review
At its heart, Twilight of the Elites is an indictment of the meritocracyu2014or what passes for it.